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African Americans and Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 281

African Americans and Africa

An introduction to the complex relationship between African Americans and the African continent What is an “African American” and how does this identity relate to the African continent? Rising immigration levels, globalization, and the United States’ first African American president have all sparked new dialogue around the question. This book provides an introduction to the relationship between African Americans and Africa from the era of slavery to the present, mapping several overlapping diasporas. The diversity of African American identities through relationships with region, ethnicity, slavery, and immigration are all examined to investigate questions fundamental to the study of African American history and culture.

Creating Black Americans
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 476

Creating Black Americans

Blending a vivid narrative with more than 150 images of artwork, Painter offers a history--from before slavery to today's hip-hop culture--written for a new generation.

Black Skin, Blue Books
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 378

Black Skin, Blue Books

This is a ground breaking comparative study of the fascinating connections between African Americans and the Welsh, beginning in the era of slavery and concluding with the experiences of African American GIs in wartime Wales.

Africans on African-Americans
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 255

Africans on African-Americans

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-07-27
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  • Publisher: Springer

Between the end of the nineteenth century and the outbreak of World War 2, Africans displaced by colonial rule created an African-American myth - a myth which aggrandized the life and attainments of African Americans despite full knowledge of the discrimination to which they were subjected. The myth provided Africans in all parts of the continent with much needed succour and underpinned various religious, educational, political and social models based on the experience of African Americans whereby Africans sought to better their own lives.

100 Greatest African Americans
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 345

100 Greatest African Americans

Since 1619, when Africans first came ashore in the swampy Chesapeake region of Virginia, there have been many individuals whose achievements or strength of character in the face of monumental hardships have called attention to the genius of the African American people. This book attempts to distill from many wonderful possibilities the 100 most outstanding examples of greatness. Pioneering scholar of African American Studies Molefi Kete Asante has used four criteria in his selection: the individual's significance in the general progress of African Americans toward full equality in the American social and political system; self-sacrifice and the demonstration of risk for the collective good; ...

Portraits of African American Life Since 1865
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 290

Portraits of African American Life Since 1865

Compelling and informative, the 14 diverse biographies of this book give a heightened understanding of the evolution of what it meant to be black and American through more than three centuries of U.S. history.

Racism and Anti-racism in American Popular Culture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 208
The White Image in the Black Mind
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 300

The White Image in the Black Mind

Historical studies of white racial thought have focused on white ideas about the "Negroes". Bay's study examines the reverse - black ideas about whites, and, consequently, black understandings of race and racial categories

A History of the African American People
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 216

A History of the African American People

An illustrated collection of essays on the history of African Americans.

Becoming African Americans
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 295

Becoming African Americans

In 2000, the United States census allowed respondents for the first time to tick a box marked “African American” in the race category. The new option marked official recognition of a term that had been gaining currency for some decades. Africa has always played a role in black identity, but it was in the tumultuous period between the two world wars that black Americans first began to embrace a modern African American identity. Following the great migration of black southerners to northern cities after World War I, the search for roots and for meaningful affiliations became subjects of debate and display in a growing black public sphere. Throwing off the legacy of slavery and segregation,...